"when the music was new, and had no rules" - Luna C aka Chris Kniteforce

Thursday, February 21, 2013

it's
not Julie Christie's version of "Bushes and Briars" (actually voiced by Isla
Cameron, song advisor on Far From Madding Crowd) that DJ Seduction and Bumble sampled (Bumble first, then sampled by Seduction, presumably?).... So whose version was it? Nobody seems to know...

info about the song scooped off the net:

The song "Bushes and Briers" was 'collected' by Ralph Vaughan Williams at
Ingrave, Essex, on 4th December, 1903, from the singing of Mr Charles
Pottipher, a seventy-year-old labourer."Vaughan Williams had
been specifically invited by the local Vicar's daughters to attend an
old people's tea-party their father was giving, so that he could meet
some real traditional singers. In fact, he only noted the first verse of
Bushes and Briars from Mr. Pottipher, being then new to
song-collecting, and later got the rest of the words from a broadside
published by Fortey of Seven Dials." (from the Mudcat thread, below)The
Essex version is perhaps the best known because of its inclusion in the
film of Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd".

LYRICS: Through Bushes and through briars I lately took my wayAll for to hear the small birds sing And the lambs to skip and playI overheard my own true loveHer voice it was so clear"Long time I have been waiting for The coming of my dearSometimes I am uneasyAnd troubled in my mindSometimes I think I'll go to my loveAnd tell to him my mindBut if I should go to my loveMy love he would say nay!If I show to him my boldnessHe'll ne'er love me again."

4 comments:

Anonymous
said...

I remember this tune (Sub Dub) from 'back in the day'. As a then 12-year-old, I knew the tune of Brushes and Briars, I'm sure, as it seemed very familiar to me. Over the years I'd thought of that tune and had just assumed it was Steeleye Span or someone like that that was sampled, as they would've been 'big' in the 80s, thereby causing me to know it. Aaaaaanyway, so recently the DJ Shadow song Sad And Lonely reminded me of it once more so I started trying to find the B&B sample used by DJ Seduction too and, same as you, knew it wasn't any of the ones thrown up by youtube etc etc. Because it had seemed such a familar folk tune to me, I was surprised that it wasn't more widely recorded.whosampled.com comes up a blank too, which suggests Bumble recorded the vox themselves? http://www.whosampled.com/Bumble/West-in-Motion/